Charlotte Aria was only able to escape from Sorg Kühne after two hours.

“Haaaaaah.”

This was why she did not want to grant him an audience. Ever since her second brother Campbell Aria died, he nagged her constantly whenever he saw her.

After experiencing it for a few years, just seeing his face made her heart sink and her stomach churn. Sometimes, Charlotte Aria would fail to hold back her temper and lash out, and whenever that happened, the desire to chase Sorg Kühne out increased.

Of course, it always stopped at just a mere thought, and she never tried to actually carry it out.

Charlotte Aria was young and immature as a ‘queen’, but it was difficult to consider her a bad ‘person’. She wasn’t so heartless as to chase out an old servant who had served the royal family in times of need for dozens of years.

Nicely put, she was innocent. Badly put, she was indecisive and weak-willed.

To be a wicked woman, one needed a strong resolve. In this sense, not being an evil ruler wasn’t necessarily a good thing.

“Whew…”

Charlotte Aria sighed once again before looking around. The grand hall of the palace was quiet and lonely.

“….”

Thinking about it now, other than Jung Sua and Sorg Kühne, she had no one else. No one tried to approach her, nor did they ask anything of her. To be precise, there was one more person, but that person always left her very exhausted.

In the end, she stayed cooped up in the palace every day.

Thinking this way, an indescribable sense of emptiness and loneliness crept up inside her.

She had already sent Jung Sua off after consoling her and had sent Sorg Kühne out after yelling at him. She wanted to vent her frustration at someone, to get her pitiful situation off her chest and be consoled.

After wandering around the grand hall meaninglessly, Charlotte Aria walked to her bedroom hastily.

“Damn it, where did I put it?”

After rummaging through her room for a long time, she found the item she was looking for— a communication crystal.

Hesitation flickered in her eyes as she saw the crystal, but she soon steeled her resolve and sat down at the edge of her bed.

Wavering slightly, she placed her hand on the crystal ball. While...